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Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning
An Emblematic 20th-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in...
Pregnancy in Practice
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers,...
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation...
Re-Imagining DEFA
East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals,...
On Prayer
Text and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to...
Comics in French
The European Bande Dessinée in Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions,...
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components...
Liquid Bread
Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used...
An Anthropology of War
Views from the Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have...
A Belle Epoque?
Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination....
The New Face of Political Cinema
Commitment in French Film since 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal characteristics...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of...
German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized....
From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic
Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance...